Self-Publishing

Whether you’re planning to DIY a book cover or make smashing social media graphics to promote your new release, you’ll need images! If you enjoy taking photos and have the equipment and skills needed, you can always use your own. Not everyone is a photographer, though, so you’ll be using stock images. If you’ve ever done […]

Do you want to create a fabulous ebook cover without using Photoshop? Do you feel like your design skills are limited? Are you on a tight publishing budget? If you’ve answered “yes” to any of these questions, you’re going to LOVE today’s post and the accompanying freebies. I’m seriously excited to share it with you! […]

Title: How to Train Your Cat to Promote Your Books Written By: Rayne Hall Genre: Writing Helps/Non-fiction Recommended Ages: 13 and up Warning: The author does write horror books, so some of the pictures in the book contain a plastic skull or covers from the author’s books. There is also a reference to witches. Introduction: […]

Welcome back to my Blog Tour series! Unless I get more questions about blog tours, this will be the last installment for now. I hope it’s been helpful so far and that this post will be as well. When is the best time for a tour? This is probably one of trickiest parts of the […]

Last week, I talked about what a blog tour is. Today, we have a few how-tos of a blog tour. Feel free to ask me questions in the comments below. How to Create a Sign-up Sheet The best way I have found for sign-up sheets is to use Google Forms. These can be found here. […]

I have a side business orchestrating blog tours for authors. One of the most common questions I get–from experienced and inexperienced authors alike–is “What is a blog tour?” Over the next three weeks, I’ll be talking about the whats, hows, and whens of blog tours. Today we have the “Whats.” What is a Blog Tour? […]

Authors often ask me what they should include on their book’s back cover. Today I’ll share with you the possible content you could include on your back cover as well as tips on length and how to choose which content to include. The most important thing to remember? Much like I mentioned in my article […]

Did you know that using the right or wrong font is one thing that can make or break your book cover? No kidding! I’ve been a professional book designer for the last 5 years, and I’d like to share with you the important font-choice guidelines I follow when designing a book cover. Before we get started, let […]

Happy Saturday, everyone! I am in the throes of formatting my third novella, “The Secret Slipper,” so formatting is on the brain for sure. I had thought about doing a formatting tutorial, but a video would probably work better than text for that—and I have a cold, so video isn’t happening this weekend. Authors use […]

If you’ve been writing for very long, you’ve likely experienced the horrific feeling of losing some or all of your book manuscript. I’d like to share some methods you can use to keep from ever losing part of your work again. 1. Make Multiple Copies Manually Save a copy on your computer, save another copy […]